Jade Wep Apps

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by Wilfred Verkley >> Wed, 16 Jun 1999 0:05:19 GMT

G'Day

Is there a way to mix Jade Web Forms with Static HTML pages/forms together within one Jade Web Application Session? This is mainly so we can design much of the web site using a HTML editor, but have the Jade process the forms, and maybe return some results. Currently, the entire web application/site is in Jade which places a lot of restrictions on the HTML formatting and web site maintenance.

ASB Fastnet (https://www.asbbank.co.nz/fastnet/jadehttp.dll?fastnet) does this I have noticed. It looks like the www.jade.co.nz uses a mixture of Jade forms and static HTML too?

Thanks,

Wilfred.

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by Eric Peachey >> Wed, 16 Jun 1999 1:24:44 GMT

Have you tried out those WebInsert and WebJavaApplet classes? They enable you to do more. The only web-enabled app. I've worked on used plain JADE.

Side-stepping the issue: JADE 5.0 apparently incorporates a much heralded Java Thin Client. The versions I've worked with have far fewer restrictions than the HTML support offered. Apparently the Java Thin Client can be run through a Java-enabled web browser (not tried this though). There are still some restrictions though and what you see won't be what you get (but then that's the same with the HTML).

Good luck,

Eric Peachey
Cardinal Engineering Centre, Dunedin

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by John Eyers >> Wed, 16 Jun 1999 1:51:33 GMT

The ASBFastnet site uses a lower-level interface to the web than a regular Jade web-enabled system. Everything is done in html.

The Jade web site uses regular Jade forms, but the main page presentation is done through a form which essentially has just two WebHTML controls. The first gives the left navigation bar and the second gives the page content. Html is built into both and the form then shown.
In Jade 4.2 and later, you need a jade.ini file setting of UseHTML3.2=true
in the [WebOptions] section, otherwise the Html generation code tries to restrict the browser output to the WebHTML control size, which is not what you want when the control is used to produce variable output.

The java client in Jade 5.0 is intended to present Jade forms looking and acting as much as possible like the originals, but using a java applet, so the client can be run in a browser and connect to the Jade server via the internet. The internet is used as the delivery mechanism, and the browser is just a host for the java code. It will however support the WebHTML control, as java has built-in support for Html 3.2, so it could still be used to present a mix of Jade forms and Html content.

John Eyers